alt Hacker NewsEvery thread on here that goes over some threshold of Electron complaints should require commentors to include their machine specs with their post, and it should play an extremely loud incorrect buzzer if it's 8 GB memory or less.
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rixed • today at 4:28 AM
Or if they dare run two apps at the same time, as if it's 1970 all over again!
gamblor956 • today at 4:55 AM
Once upon a time, programmers cared about how performant their software was because they recognized that software was created for the end user.
Now even the good programmers don't give a fuck. Software development is now about burnishing one's resume and hoping for a massive payday instead of making stuff that's useful.
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May I ask how old you are? If you are not just naive, this should never be the attitude of someone building software. It's almost a cursed take.
Throughout history we've only gotten more efficient with our technology and it's resources. Software might be the only field where it went the opposite. Now we are insulting users on low end hardware?
The same thing I did well on a 2GB ram windows 7 machine is a latency nightmare on a 16GB windows 11. The same exact task with the same results.
Don't want to completely hate electron. VS Code proved it can be done in a good way, teams showed us the opposite. Like the author said you can build slop in any stack: JS or native it doesn't matter. What matters is care.
This entire industry is cursed with people who don't give a shit, in it for a quick buck, are entitled and lazy. Maybe AI should destroy everything anyway. We had better software when we gatekept who can build it.